Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ferns in Italy: Liguria

Our second field trip in Italy was to Liguria, where we hiked into an abandoned manganese mine filled with a lush, dense covering of ferns. Between the valley floor and hill we had to hike up and over to reach the mine, we crossed a number of habitat types and saw ferns with many varieties of habitat preference, from dark forest understory to exposed, gravelly cliff faces.

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I am a plant evolutionary biologist and Assistant Professor of Plant Systematics in the Department of Biology at the University of Florida. I research reticulate evolutionary processes, including hybridization and polyploidy, and their effects on plant systematics, genomics, and physiological ecology. I'm particularly interested in the seed-free vascular plants, ferns and lycophytes.